Everybody underestimates the Gospel. Non-Christians do so because they don’t yet accept its reality or grasp its importance. But Christians do so precisely because we think we already have. If the Gospel is God’s plan for putting right everything that’s wrong with the world, well everything is a lot.
For instance. We know that sin alienates us from God, poisons our relationships with others, leads us to harm ourselves, and even ruins our bodies. So we believe the Gospel reunites us with God, transforms us with others, reforms our own behavior, and even promises to give us new bodies eventually.
But don’t we also know that sin has wrecked this world and the lives of plants and animals who are suffering the ruination we caused? So we should expect (and rightly so based on Genesis 9:10-17) that God’s Gospel is a plan for restoring even these deformities as well. Everything sin destroys, the Gospel restores. And until we see the Gospel at least that large, we see too little of it.
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